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"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Magazines and E-zines I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Magazines and E-zines
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Magazines and E-zines You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Magazines and E-zines
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Magazines and E-zines Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Magazines and E-zines
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Magazines and E-zines There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Magazines and E-zines
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Magazines and E-zines "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Magazines and E-zines
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Magazines and E-zines I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Magazines and E-zines
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Magazines and E-zines Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Magazines and E-zines
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Magazines and E-zines Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Magazines and E-zines
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Magazines and E-zines Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Magazines and E-zines
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Magazines and E-zines The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Magazines and E-zines
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Magazines and E-zines The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Magazines and E-zines
